474 THESSALONICA. 
CHAP. It was not in our power to prosecute any 
^ \ ' - inquiry among the Jews of this place ; owing, 
as we have already stated, to the infected 
condition of that part of the city. We had already 
encountered more risque than our worthy Con- 
sul deemed prudent : and we found it difficult 
to obtain, without extreme danger, the things 
from the bazars that were wanted for our 
journey. Our interpreter's clothes were quite 
worn out: and in order to provide him with 
apparel, it was absolutely necessary that some 
cloth should be procured. For this purpose 
we were at last compelled to rest satisfied with 
a coarse kind of manufacture of white woollen, 
worn by the Albanian shepherds, which was 
fumigated, and passed through water. With 
this mountain vest, as heavy and as thick as 
felt, and one of those Pelasgic bonnets upon his 
head, shaped like a scalp, which his ancestors 
the Greeks have worn ever since they were 
known as a people', he came prepared to 
( See Ihe very autient bas-relief engraved for this volume, (facing 
]>. 186,) as found near Orchomenus ; also the scalp-like cap worn by 
AJercurr/j as represented upon the silver medals of ^wo5. Caps of this 
form now constitute one of the principal branches ofGrecian commerce. 
They are worn by all the inhabitants of the Levant, whether Moslems or 
Christians, males or females. The Greeks wear this sort of cap simply 
as a hat ; the Turks surround it with a turbau ; and the women adorn 
it with a handkerchief, tassels, and fringe. (See Beaujour, Tabl. du 
Comm- 
